lapidar
Portuguese, verb/la.piˈda(ʁ)/
lapidar is spelled L-A-P-I-D-A-R (7 letters) and appears about once in every 3 million words in written Portuguese, the 53,784th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Lapidar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to cut (a gemstone)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “gravar em pedra”.
What does lapidar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to cut (a gemstone)
- 2
to stone, lapidate
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. gravar em pedra 2. fazer de pedras talhadas, trabalhadas 3. trabalhar as pedras preciosas brutas até que fiquem polidas e brilhantes 4. aperfeiçoar, trabalhar, deixar belo
The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.
Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of lapidar
- lapido first-person present singular
- lapidei first-person preterite singular
- lapidado participle past
- lapidares infinitive second-person singular
- lapidarmos first-person infinitive plural
- lapidardes infinitive plural second-person
- lapidarem infinitive plural third-person
- lapidando gerund
- lapidados masculine participle past
- lapidada feminine participle past
- lapidadas feminine participle past
- lapidas indicative present second-person
- lapida indicative present singular
- lapidamos first-person indicative plural
- lapidais indicative plural present
- lapidam indicative plural present
- lapidava first-person imperfect indicative
- lapidavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce lapidar?
- Brazil /la.piˈda(ʁ)/
- Brazil [la.piˈda(h)]
- /la.piˈda(ɾ)/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to lapidar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is lapidar in Portuguese?
lapidar appears about once in every 3 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).